>. While cloned horses conceiveably improve the
average or typical horse (assuming that cloning does eventually produce healthy
copies), by its nature it can not improve the best examples of a breed.
Oh, I dunno…let’s
“unpack” this concept, shall we (as my old Jurisprudence lecturer
used to say).
I have a horse who
is really difficult.Having said
that, I acquired him at a time when I was phenomenally, embarrassingly
green.As a result, I made more
cock-ups than can be found in a strip club at a bachelor’s party.
Now, I can only wonder what would happen
if I could clone this horse and start afresh, with insight into his temperament
coupled with years more experience…..just thinking about it is exciting.
So whilst you might not be able to improve
on genetics, we have learned so much more about soundness and training and
nutrition that it’s arguable that a clone might just turn out better than
it’s “sire/dam/ancestor”.
